Until recently I thought this was a well-known feature. After demonstrating it a few times, I found out it wasn’t.

A long time ago, in an cubicle far, far away, someone created the .Net Framework. To cut a long story short, they simultaneously produced guidelines for creating Exception classes, which you should always use or face having your fingernails pulled out with a staple-gun.

The guidelines state:

“Use the common constructors shown in the following code example when creating exception classes. “

[C#]

public class XxxException : ApplicationException
{
public XxxException() {… }
public XxxException(string message) {… }
public XxxException(string message, Exception inner) {… }
public XxxException(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) {…}
}

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